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...unsolved. Only 100,000 men in each college class are physically fit for active duty, yet the Army and Navy are asking for 160,000 men each year, and are cutting each others' throats in an effort to corner the available supply. Meanwhile Selective Service has been forced to draft married men and essential defense workers to fill oversized quotas set up before the manpower was depleted by the numerous reserve programs...
...confusion and lack of direction continue. College men still query, "What should I do?" Director Hershey states publicly that he will be forced to draft any man applying for the ERC who has not yet been accepted, and the pretentious War Manpower Commission under Paul McNutt stands idly by. There is now before the War Manpower Commission a War Service Bill, comparable to the one in England, which would mobilize the total manpower of the nation--now. Nothing is more important than for the bill to set up a plan which will eliminate the present incoherence. For if we ever...
...Only previous draft of null was in World War I, only other major foreign war in U.S. history...
...revolution as well. When the Red cause seemed all but lost in south Russia, Stalin wrote to Lenin: "The fact is that our experts are not only psychologically incapable of ruthlessly combatting the counterrevolution, but likewise, being staff workers who know only how to make field sketches and draft plans for realignment, are absolutely indifferent to actual operations, and in general regard themselves as outsiders, as guests...
...Divinity School, the one branch of the University least affected by the war since ministers, or those training for that profession, are exempt from the draft, will continue as usual. The classes for the chaplains will be held in Andover Hall on Francis Avenue, where the Divinity students now meet, but authorities stated that there will be room for both in the building...